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[ SECRET POST #3029 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3029 ⌋

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[Peep Show]

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[Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis]

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[Alexis Denisof]

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[Guardians of the Galaxy]

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[John Green]

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[Outlander]

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[Selfie]

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[Emilio Estevez]

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[His Dark Materials]

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[Star Wars, Twilight]

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[Faux Pas]

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[Mass Effect]

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[The Black Lillies]

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Earlier today on Tumblr, someone I follow reblogged a thing about the Lorax, which I haven't heard anything about or seen anything from it in, like, forever.

(For those who didn't witness it, the fandom that sprung up around 'The Lorax' -or rather, the Once-ler- back in 2012 was this incredible tidal wave-esque that came out of nowhere, dominated pretty much everything for the better part of the year, then seemingly vanished ~~like the Dwemer at Red Mountain~~)

So this got me to thinking... what other fandoms just sprung up out of the blue and then, perhaps after a brief yet intense time period, suddenly disappeared? Because this kind of stuff just plum fascinates me sometimes.

The only other one I can think of is 'Rise of the Guardians', but that's pretty much lived on in the form of Jack Frost/Elsa crossover shipping and Jack in that homogenous pablum 'Rise of the Brave Frozen Tangled Dragons' crossover.

Most one-shot movies I think. Not many last for very long.

I think movie fandoms, in particular ones that aren't based off popular book series and don't have any sequels, are always a bit of a doomed fandom. The Lorax kind of fits that because even though it was based off Seuss it was aspects of the movie people were drawn to.

Like even with Disney films things tend to drop off and you may only see the character around if they can fit in a princess line up.

The most recent example I can think of is Pacific Rim, it was all over tumblr for a while and now I barely see it.

Pacific Rim will have a sequel, though, so you can expect the fandom to make a comeback. Films that are part of a series or a franchise get a bit more longevity in terms of relevance.

Now, Inception is a one-shot movie that I think has had a pretty damn impressive run, but even that fandom today is a shade of its former glory.

I think one of the best examples of this is The Social Network.

What a beautiful flash in the pan it was though. So much long-fic

The popularity still baffles me. I haven't seen it, but of all thing to catch on like fire, I didn't expect a 'based on a true story' kind of thing.

part of it was due to the extreme amount of chemistry between eisenberg and garfield both on and off screen

The Lorax had some pretty unique issues for a fandom to deal with--not just the lack of canon shipping partners, but also the fact that the main character was at the end of his life cycle by the end of the movie. We know his entire adult life was spent holed up in his house.

There have been a lot of series that were popular with migratory fandom groups that were certainly depleted once they moved on (often after a very short period of time) but none of the drastic extent the Lorax/Once-ler fandom experienced.

The Dark Knight Rises. ;_;

Mission Impossible. Hopefully it will have a surge when the new one comes out.

Are the Mission Impossible movies past the first one any good? I couldn't get past the fact that the first movie both was a lone-hero thing even though the show was all about the team and the fact that they completely ruined the one character included from the original show and made him a villain.

Re: "Flash in the pan" Fandoms

kaijinscendre - 2015-04-21 00:20 (UTC) - Expand

Isn't that just a portion of the greater Nolan Batman triology?

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kaijinscendre - 2015-04-21 01:11 (UTC) - Expand

The only sort of fandom for TDKR that still exists nowadays is Baneposting.

I don't know whether that's funny or sad.

Re: "Flash in the pan" Fandoms

kaijinscendre - 2015-04-21 00:46 (UTC) - Expand

Inception.

idk, Inception is still reasonably active. Even now, the last 20 Inception fics to be posted on AO3 were uploaded over the past two days so that's a pretty good rate for a movie fandom that's like, what, five years old. I mean, the fic quality has nose dived drastically but still

nthing what others have said. Movie fandoms rarely last for longer than a year or two. A 2 hour movie generally doesn't give fans enough material to really keep it going.

The last one I was in was District 9. Amazing fanart, a handful of amazing fics, but it burned out within a year or two. And it was during that awkward transition period where everyone had left LJ behind but fandom hadn't fully jumped to tumblr. The fandom existed almost entirely on a tiny LJ comm and various -chans (especially 4pluschan iirc).

Yep. The only major exception I can think of to the movie thing is the MCU, but that's due to them releasing movies like clockwork twice a year, and -if they count- things like Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter, and the 'Defenders' Netflix series (i.e. Daredevil, AKA Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, et al) that tie into it. (Cartoons inspired by the movies may or may not count)

And I briefly remember District 9, if only because a good friend of mine was really into the movie at the time. For a film with no expanded universe tie-ins and little to work with, they were a damn creative bunch imo.

V for Vendetta did that. Was big that year, I was in it, my friends were in it, then poof.

I think V for Vendetta may tie with The Phantom of the Opera for highest proportion of fix-it fic. Not sure how much of that was due to title-character death and how much was migratory phandom. I know a lot of phans either concurrently ship or moved on to Rumbelle, these days, although as OUAT goes down the shitter, they're leaving. I wonder if the new Disney Beauty and the Beast will draw some of them in. It may do, for me, since I'll at least give most BatB variants a shot. (Yeah, I know V for Vendetta isn't actually a BatB variant, but the fanfic-and-art producing part of its fandom mostly treated it as one, rather than a political fable of sorts.

*hears about ROTG*

*Searches or Jack/Bunnymund fic on Tumblr*

Yep, that side of the fandom's definitely over. Still though, over 700 fics on AO3! I call that an impressive run for a pairing.

Outside of the neckbeard contingent at RPG Codex and No Mutants Allowed, Fallout fandom basically ceases to exist about 6 months after the release of a new game.

Certain video games a few months after release, in my case handheld games that I've fallen in love with like Rune Factory 4.

Fire Emblem: Awakening seems to be pacing itself evenly, if only to see itself to the release of Fire Emblem If.

I've noticed this with some video games, too. Especially the games that are often picked up by popular video game YouTubers (notably Pewdiepie and Markiplier). Like, I think had someone like Markiplier hadn't picked up on Five Nights at Freddy's, it probably wouldn't have gotten nearly as popular as it has (to the point where it's been optioned for a movie adaptation).

I also recall there being a huge fandom for Animal Crossing: New Leaf when it came out, and by the time I finally got the game, the fandom pretty much disappeared except for a handful of blogs that still update the occasional QR code. Admittedly, the novelty of that wears off pretty quickly, so I can't say I'm surprised there.

I love Rune Factory and the Harvest Moon games but admittedly they are the type of games I play and then forget about (usually by the time I get married I end up dropping the game.) And it definitely feels that way for fandom too.

It's funny because they're popular games but you hardly see discussions or art related to them much because it so often gets forgotten.

Oh, I completely forgot about another one: Green Lantern: TAS.

My personal experience aside (spoilers: it wasn't a good one at all due to a variety of unrelated factors. Thanks, personal mental health!), that series was pretty huge in some of the circles I was with on Tumblr. Some Avatar: AtLA BNFs carried over and pretty much ran the fandom (or at least, influenced the output of fanworks)... hell, I think it was the first time since F!Shepard/Garrus and F!Shepard/Kaidan in 'Mass Effect', did I see a hetero pairing be the dominant one in a fandom. And while there wasn't a lot of fan fic, there was a ton of fan art being produced. Also a huge influence was that Giancarlo Volpe and Jim Krieg were heavily involved in the fandom as well, so that fanned the fire for a while.

Then the cancellation happened, that awful 'Symbiosii' campaign with the Young Justice fandom occurred and yeah. It was a mess. After it became clear that the show was never going to come back, the majority of the GLTAS fandom practically disappeared after Giancarlo left animation altogether to work for Riot Games back in 2013, and that was that. There's a few stragglers here and there, but it's nowhere near as much of a force as it was back in its heyday.

Edited 2015-04-21 03:37 (UTC)

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